One Year Later, Israeli Hostage Family Learns Of Loss

For a year, Omri Shtivi campaigned for the release of his brother Idan and the other Israeli hostages in Gaza but now he has been told by the army that his brother died on the day of the Hamas attack (Credit: AFP)

After a year of desperately hoping for positive news or a sign of life, the family of Israeli hostage Idan Shtivi has learnt he was killed on October 7, 2023, the first day of Hamas's attack.

"We thought he was alive for a year," Idan's brother, Omri, told AFP. "I just wish I could have hugged him one last time."